Episode 8 - Arthur Harris and Area Bombing, with Professor Alan Allport

Never Mind The Dambusters - A podcast by Jane Gulliford Lowes and James Jefferies

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In this conversation, Jane and James chat to historian and author Professor Alan Allport about the decision of the British cabinet to allow the RAF to start bombing Germany's Ruhr Valley. He explains that this decision, made in May 1940, was a watershed moment in the war and really marked the beginning of the bombing campaign 'proper'. Allport also discusses the Butt Report, which revealed the ineffectiveness of the early bombing raids, and its impact on Bomber Command. He then ex...